It's nice to see Samurai being considerate of his friend/teammate's mental health, he probably knows more about how losses take a toll on Chris than the rest of us and is trying to help him however he can that being said, in competition and in entertainment, ain't nobody got time for all that shit, you can hold that

It's never my opponents job to temper his trash talk. It's my job to make them stop talking.

i think punk did keep the trash talk focused on the game its not like he come after their lives personally. its all good.

Trash talk is in every type of competitive scene. As long as it doesn’t get too personal and stays to the game it’s fine.

I feel like Punk only talked trash about their skill and not them personally. I don't think he's going too far and he made the show more entertaining for many viewers

That face when nas said he wasn’t with that gay shit 😂😂 nesto be killing me

Understand that, if punk didnt pop off in that way. No one would be talking about it now. Your in the fighting game community, beating the person who popped off and beat your student/friend added hype to you as a player. Punk in this situation, made it something to watch, Gave their team, a story. Work harder grow stronger, beat punk. If you cant that's okay but understand that it just means what punk said was true.

I think it's a generational and cultural difference..Punk sounded like he kept it in the game, if you break your opponent mentally with your skill then that is all apart of competition. I understand Samurai was trying to pick up for his teammates but that is the game.

I just love the FGC, wether you're free, or you're competing...I just love the thrill of the fight. No other genre of ANYTHING can fuel my anxiety SO DAMN MUCH and keep me coming back

"Sure it's a competitive strategy and he's in my head I really wish he wasn't tho so please stop taking advantage of our weak mentals"

They must have never heard of the shit talking going on in the NBA.

That was hardly trash talk. Wow he said I'm the best Luke, how scathing

Its Punk, this man has all the trash talk and its fun to watch.

In every competitive scene there is always going to have those trashtalkers. It’s either tune them out or give into it. But I know the victory is 100x better when you body them and hear the silence

No one is gonna watch the Hug and Console Tourney 2022. Sport needs rivalries and if you want esports to be considered sports you gotta let this happen. Imagine the UFC without trash talk. You wouldn't know who McGregor was without it

Samurai completely over reacted to this. "Oh no he called me free" and said "he's better than me at the game he just beat me in, my mental health is at stake"

Man, I'm softer than chocolate pudding and even I think these people are crying too much. I take everything personal and trust me it's not that personal

Punk is fine. Trash talk is entertaining. God damn these softies bro

I guess Chriscch never experienced the arcade scene then. Trash talk was what made the arcade scene hype.

Trash talking is cultural. Some grown-up in a trash talking culture. Other don't and see it as childish and immature.

Now I’m not tryna say I’m a huge Connor McGregor fan. But there’s a reason why he became the most famous MMA fighter of all time

Punk is great. He isnt making personal attacks or anything messed up. He just talking that smack in game and keeping it there. I think Samurai just got emotional and couldnt really express it other then... "bully"...

I just can't understand, all that talk wasn't even bad. Every sport has talking and this was already light n soft trash talk

Punk is iconic, SF(V) wouldn't be the same without him.

If they trash talk in “ physical sports” they can trash talk in esports 😂

Punk is one of the only people keeping the old FGC spirit alive. Commentary is way cleaner now and the players have been forced to be more respectful as well. Some of it is good for the growth of the scene but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it. F Champ used to be in people's ears the whole set having them about to break their stick lmao

For somebody saying someone should calm down...he popped off PRETTY HARD after his win.

I feel like they caught amnesia soon as punk started talking. In the match ChrisCCH won every time he landed a combo they yelled “Hey Hey Hey” punk was just matching their energy. No harm no file.

Imagine if someone like Larry Bird or Kevin Garnett played fighting games. Some of these kids would have a heart attack 😂

I'm not surprised Samurai feel that way. If it's one thing I've learned over the years watching the guy play is never expect him to actually win.

Bro we need more savage trash talk like from few years ago

"Whatever happens bro, we love you and trust you." Samurai too dope. Edit: 801Strider wishing he was in Samurais spot rn 🤣

Mahalo for the shout out Ernesto!!!!Hawaii in the house!!!

There we go Ernesto, covering the good stuff!

Punk is one of the main reasons to watch SFL. it's entertaining to watch. As long players aren't getting talked about on a personal level or slurs being used, I feel its all fair game to trash talk rivals/opponents.

Punk did nothing wrong, he even admitted that Chris washed him at EVO. Trash talk and still kept it real

So long as it stays at a gameplay level, I won’t really ever have an issue with trash talk. Punk did nothing wrong

LOL at :15 part of the clip, I had that EXACT same look as Ernesto did, and I died laughing

Bro some people are soft as 💩 let trash talk happen but I understand what samurai said

Punk hates Luke so much and Chris knocked him out of EVO with that Luke. Now that he’s beating Luke mains in the mirror I think he’s justified in popping off 😂

😂 😂 😂 I could not handle Tasty Steve losing his absolute shit in the background 😂😂

“Main: Eleven” 😂

If it wasn't for trash talk we wouldn't have been graced with glorious grudge match between LTG and Viscant.

I appreciate both humble players and trash talkers. I don't care which one I get, I just can't wait to play with a group of people someday.

Ernesto checking my buttons kinda makes me tingle

Good players =/= Good leaders. It's video games. The man is just trash talking in video games. Samurai been doing this long enough to know the difference.

Punk for once kept thrash talk on a decent level, that is a mind game too as samurai said ... Punk expose himself to pop-off and have swallow it , because ""karma is a beach 😁"

What’s up Ernesto!!! Agree keeping it in the game is totally ok it’s part of competition, but once u make it personal that’s when it’s problem

I just turned 39 and I remember being 11 years old and actually going to the arcade and playing sf2. A super young age at a bowling where my parents were playing league. It was in albany in the east Bay Area of California. It was a centralized area where Oakland Berkeley and Richmond hoods would inevitably meet. You needed this hard edge because people would really be belligerent at the sticks. But at the same time what’s lost on fighting games today is that people are cooped up in there homes creating these introverted weirdos with no street etiquette. Competition today is filled with people who can create a persona and hide behind a screen and allow themselves to be who they think they are. When you find some success it doesn’t change you. It makes you more of who you already were. If people can’t take that he was “bullying” maybe it’s your own inhibition that makes you feel uncomfortable that you need to address. You popped off.. that’s not what a real samurai** does. Play your part and do you. You won the game. Quit being a toy.

It's the biggest paradox in the FGC (at least in the US). Trash-talk comes hand-in-hand with competition. Whether or not there's a place for it in pro-level esports calls to the stand what it's like at amateur level tournaments or playing at home of which every pro player has come up from. There's also need to consider whether or not there's entertainment value to be derived from it for the spectators as that one comment alluded. Obviously, I'm not a pro-level player, so my opinion don't mean much, but I do think pro-level events could do without it. As a spectator, the spectacle is in the actual play taking place on the game screen irrespective of what else is happening in the immediate atmosphere of the players.

Did he say trash talking in a * COMPETITIVE GAME* was bullying??? If that's not the loudest dog whistle I've heard on gaming trash talk Idk what is!!! He's playing the wrong game genre if he's looking for a safe space when it comes to games that you're playing to win/compete for a top spot! Maybe he should play single player story mode??? Make sure to turn off Balrog's win quotes as well!

Watching from Cameroon

It’s so jarring how fragile the fgc can be 😅

The mental game is important in ANY one-on-one competition. If getting under your opponent's skin wasn't meant to be a strategy, we wouldn't have a taunt button.

Trash talking is just a part of the game, and beating the guy that just popped off is bliss. That being said it's great to see a friend stick up for him, we need more of that.

This was incredibly light compared to back then. That's the beauty of the FGC It forces you to be better.

stuart smalley reference is very fitting imo lol

It wasn't a good look when he said "I love you and I trust you". That's a sign of a generation. If I know trash talk can break an opponent down, I'll talk more trash. If you can make the trash talker silent with a win, it's even a 100 times sweeter. Gen X'er here.

Proud to be part of that 1.8% 🇵🇭

That ending lmao

The Hawaiian guy!? Lmfao cheehooooo must be me!

Punk is just being his version of a showman. Sprinkling a lil spice. It's "eSports" but it's also combat. It's not bullying. These guys also all know each other, I don't think Chris took it personally at all. And I think it's more likely that Samurai and Punk might have a little beef. They also have polar opposite style/demeanor. So there's that ideological clash. I mean look how heated the Midwest VS West Coast 5v5 was, and JaK and CCH are on the same team chill as hell. So idk if there's history there with Samurai and Punk, and no disrespect to samurai for taking a stand when he feels his friends were wronged, but you gotta understand the showmanship and that these "kids" are adults that have seen it all.

Well said Samurai.

Even if words are personal, we're all adults at this point in our lives. If you can't ignore the trash talk and it bothers you as a person then I would suggest not putting yourself in that situation. Bullying is something to be taken more seriously amongst CHILDREN, who are less capable of protecting themselves from the mental repercussions which can lead to all sorts of terrible outcomes. I watched the entire ordeal and Punk wasn't even CLOSE to being out of line. All he was doing was complaining about the character nearly EVERY SINGLE PERSON was playing at that event. Punk brings something special to the community, and part of that is his banter. Asking him to tone it down is like asking him to remove a part of his soul. Keep being you, Punk, I and many others appreciate you.

Think about it in the NBA, MLB, UFC. Competition is competition. At the pro level you should be able to hold yourself together.

If a "pro" player mental is bothered by trash talk thats not on the trash talker its on the player who is the recipient. Its working so why would the trash talker stop?? It was banter all banter. Samurai is on some BS right now.

Remember when Nesto did that vid on Panda Global wanting that smoke? Punk showing he want that smoke lol

"Life is something like a salad bar. You gotta help yoself." It's not Punk's job to build up people. Don't they have a team for that?! I'm not saying Punk right or wrong. But there's been times where I talk shit to Psych myself up. And when I do, my focus gets more intense and less shit phases me cause I'M locked in completely. If I'm not hype and Poppin off, yelling n screaming, and talking shit (if you start it)...you not getting my all. I'm playing at like 50-60%. Granted. My 50-60% is Great. But my 100% is Pro level. I can't say a muh fucka wrong for talking shit when there's times I do it too. But sometimes it may not even be about the other person.

I agree with keeping it in the game but Punk never really goes past that, and he doesn't need to be positive all the time when all other players are pretty positive anyway

The only thing serious on the Punk subject is how funny is the fact that it got a video on Button Check xD

Fighting games are mental as well we can run the clock or throw these hands so talking smack might make a player that doesn’t approach make mistakes more randomly

Just think, even if I told you it was an insanely exciting match… would you watch Samurai v Kami first to 10?

Watching punk pop off got me hyped af

This won’t even be on a “best pop offs” compilation samurai is trying to protect his team but do that by beating the “villain”

isnt Hawaii in the USA?

We not gonna talk about samurai ignoring the pre game respect punk showed him?

He said it himself that punk's doing it with the intent of breaking down the opponent's mental, that's a part of competition and still in the game imo

I’m that 1% in Hawaii 🤣🤣🤣

Punk is one of the most passionate FGC members there is. I bet he had to do some mental warfare for his own, since he feel ChrisCCH beat him previously, so he felt he had to get that one back. I can definitely see what Samurai says, but I have actually had the pleasure of talking to punk without a controller in his hand, and he is one of the nicest people I´ve met, even come out as shy. Anyways, I do not see it as bullying, but mental warfare, but I can see how it can be perceived as bullying as well. So I just wrote a lot, and still nothing is clear. LOL. Thanks for the content Nesto. Keep it comming.

If u skipped 10 min ahead in the vod after he beat cch you'd see the meltdown people were talking about.

Its that North East/Philly energy Punks got. Its that ride when you lose and OD winner when they win.

I just hope punk is playing into the character he seems like a really nice guy , I think that's the character he's playing a bit into . The villain keeps the story going , batman would suck if there were no villains to fight .. Me personally I never liked bullies but in this case/ FGC banter we need villains to keep it hype even when we talk about LTG his kind is needed to keep it hype now in guys like LTG case they border on toxic which is not welcome but even then we are more hype to see him lose/rage quit so for the means of entertainment I think the trash talk is welcome . I will say this tho when it's not an opponent that's trash talking it can seem a bit like bullying , but I also wanna note those same guys may not do much trash talking but they do pop offs and get hype when they win so technically they are also celebrating someone's loss so if someone else trash talks to them later when the opponent wins I call fair game . I'd like to also note their are some that don't trash talk or celebrate they just dap it up and keep it moving and maybe those guys can be excluded .

I am being honest not everytime I like punk atitude but punk can really grow you in a good players after all the pop off and trash talk you get after the beating he gives you.

Punk was being Punk. This man is competitive and sh*t talking comes with that. Ask ANY sports fan.

6:09 THIS my friends, is called a Hypocrite!!

You Gon Learn Today-J Wong

All I have to say is keep the trash talk in game and trash talk is what makes fighting games hype. That’s why I watch HOC tournaments.

remember UMVC3 ERA

Kids these days would have folded at the arcades

Nah punk is fine bro. Just some mind games to break down the opponent.

Last I checked they were playing street fighter 5 on a high professional level not selling girl's scout cookies to get their bakery badge...like wtf..

That's what the headphones are for. If what your opponent is saying bothers you, wear headphones.

You can’t put a container or measurement to passion at that high of a level, most especially in a competitive setting. I don’t know everyone’s situation but I bet for someone like Punk this is their full-time gig. People wanna see the smoke, heck even get smoked, but when it gets too hot then they quick to say you shouldn’t play with fire. I hear what Samurai is saying, but if Punk hadn’t struck a nerve would he have retaliated that way and get the dub? Prolly not, so which one do you want? Mans on the mic was even saying “I gave you what you want and now you ask for the receipt?” LOL Dominance through mental warfare is age old in any sport, that’s why the mental resilience of these guys is almost unbreakable, they’ve made it part of the game bully or not. If smack talk isn’t banned in the rules, then no holds barred! And that’s why the level continues to climb and why competition is Survival of the Fittest mentally! Alternatively, you can be well behaved and compliant like some Japanese players and be a killer assassin... let the skills do the talking... but we don’t watch American athletes for that reason lol. I wonder, if Punk could speak fluent Japanese would he smack talk his Japanese peers, because he would know that you don’t rock the boat and that’s how he could get into their heads to break their minds. But also, don’t you think Punk’s level of mouthing off is actually his way of showing tough love and actually showing respect? Hrmmm...🤔

It's a competition.

trashtalk is cool its competitive you gotta put up some heat in it

We are definitely in a different time in gaming Punk can be annoying at times but in this particular event he seemed to be more on the public entertainment showman side vs just deliberately trying to bully people A part of me think that with the whole playing in the comfort of your home in virtual private parties with like minded individuals in a more controlled setting playing games in this modern day social climate might've had something to do with why more modern gamers aren't as confrontational Because back then to lets say 09er era when online gaming on console really took off and SF came back with legacy players from the face to face arcade era in front and in person really put you in sometimes a fight or flight kinda having to adapt environment where that was the norm. And talking to players from around the world while playing a game was new to alot of people so the trashtalk was so unhinged it molded into a whole generation of online players because that was the climate of its time which forced alot of people to adapt to it especially during big events and money matches. Everything about that Yipes "IT'S MAAHVEL BAYBEE" pt 1 and 2 or any of his old public sets which garnered him mega fame in the fgc (Outside of being an absolute beast in MVC2) spoke to our souls as a community back then because thats how it was and he ended up landing as our beloved color commentator But how the community is now if Yipes were to come out now with how he used to talk back then, I mean he's still very outspoken but I mean like how he'd be beatin Storm up in the corner yelling at his opponent "COME GET YA SH*T SPIT ON B$*%!!! COME PUNCH DIS B$%*&AAA ONE MO FO DA DOOR MAN!!!" and whatnot, they probably would try to cancel him on how he used to talk. So I think right now we are hitting a bit of an empass with how people view trashtalking as a whole now as new views on it usually from new players are just not for the behavior at all and probably wasn't really a part of that environment heavy when it was a big deal is just my overall thesis.

Me literally staring at Tekken competitive scenes.... Hmmm

with samurai on this!!!

I love the pop-offs, especially when samurai popped off at punk. Its all love in FGC.

That’s why I don’t like playing online with people at all period take way to personal for me